This country's 5 elections away from being ruled exclusively by the CDU since it's inception and two of those were doing CDU stuff with a coat of red paint applied

    • 6bicycles [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I'm pretty sure a third party will be required, it's going to be the FDP and at that point might aswell fill up the rest with the SPD since they have proven for 16 years they're just gonna go along with whatever the CDU says anyways.

      Or maybe this is the one where they drop the pretense and just coalesce with the AfD.

  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    It's almost as if all liberal democracy is just the supremacy of the bourgeoisie with a thin veneer of popular power to give people the illusion of choice.

  • DerEwigeAtheist [she/her, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    I am so annoyed with german libs, who always praise the german democracy, go on and on about pragmatism and act like the state owned networks are "apolitical". Also the DDR was fundamentally evil and nothing can ever change that. Most german libs i know also bizarrely love the Vschutz. Does anyone have lib friendly or any good source on how and why germany is shit, to show to people?

  • comi [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    They also have csu, completely different :very-intelligent:

  • HammerOfLove [comrade/them,she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Same thing here in Denmark, the power just rotates between Socialdemokraterne (a social democratic party) and Venstre (a center right party, fun fact Venstre means left in Danish, which makes it all the more confusing).

  • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    two of those were doing CDU stuff with a coat of red paint applied

    Fairly generous to assume that Brandt and Schmidt weren't doing CDU stuff with a coat of red paint applied.

    • 6bicycles [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I'm of the opinion these type of arguments always work better when you steelman them and they still work